For christ's sake I'll never figure out why the American public votes for either party.

Because there is truly no alternative. The majority of Americans have no problem aligning themselves with one party or the other. In fact I would
bet most can find the middle of each party to be very similar. 3rd party candidates have historically done nothing but screw up elections. We saw
that in 2000 when Nader helped ensure Bush was elected. Had he stayed out Gores victory would have been so overwhelming Bush could not have taken the
election through the Supreme Court.

I find that up until 2000 I was able to vote for the best candidate regardless of party. In fact I pretty much voted 50/50. The candidates fell into
the middle area and I could find stars in both parties. Now it is hard to pick any of them as I refuse to vote far left or right. I think you will
see the middle rise again, Americans are sick of both extremes.

would someone please tell me how wanting to know how wanting to know what misinformation was used to promote this war hurts America? Ried is right
this republican congress has consistantly protected its own to the deteriment of the country. There isn't a member in it that has the moral courage
to put the country first before the party and it is a real pity.

The Dems are very very upset that only Libby was indicted. They wanted Rove and Cheney, too. Why? To embarass Bush. So now they go into secret session
and emerge wanting to know why further investigations are not being done.

The intelligence that was "manipulated" pre-dated 9/11, and everybody, even Clinton agreed that Saddam was a threat. But now we hear that it was
molded to create an excuse to invade Iraq.

Political partisanship at it's finest.

I did catch one interesting snatch of talk, though. It was stated that the report given by Joe Wilson on his return from Niger was a hoax. Now
that's interesting...

Originally posted by nativeokiehave historically done nothing but screw up elections. We saw that in 2000 when Nader helped ensure Bush
was elected. Had he stayed out Gores victory would have been so overwhelming Bush could not have taken the election through the Supreme
Court.

gee if us 3rd party voters wanted either to win we wouldnt vote 3rd party now would we, dont blame us for your party losing, blame your party for
pushing voters away to 3rd parties.

I tell ya what. For the first time in my life I truely wonder who to trust in our government if any of them. When I grew up I always pictured the
leaders of nations as honorable an nobel above all else. I thought at least most of them would do the right thing and vote for the good of the
nation.

Sadly the truth is that they all do what helps them retain power at all and any cost. They inflict personal agendas upon us and vote on law based on
who ever is going to supply the money to help them remain in power.

I believe more than ever that no one in governement should be allowed to stay in power more than 8 years of there life. Even those who may have
started out nobel eventually give in to greed of power over the american peoples needs.

Our news sources (Fox News mainly) (My Favorite)now openly spins the truth to make what ever party they support look good, no matter how ugly the
truth is.

Were is an American to find truth these days when not even our grandest leaders have integrity?

We all believe what the news tells us so we end up voting for lies and half truths (basically we vote for lier's and we have no other choices. We
have to pick our favorite lier.

I am not even sure it is possible to really ever get America back.

Coorporations have taken over our nation.

I believe there are no more good men. Only the rich will rule for now on. Good honest and nobel is no longer part of the Governement.

Politics have taken over their minds and they cannot even see the truth any longer.

I loved Frist's "hijacking the Senate" comment. And they say Democrats whine!

"Plamegate" is the media's version of Lewinskygate, updated for a new administration in its second term. It seems fair enough for the American
public to accept. The real issues, the real crimes, that this administration has committed oddly don't seem to have been the ones that motivated the
Democrats to pull something like this. I'm hoping the Dems are finally asking some questions in the closed session the answers to which the
American public is not yet prepared to accept.

The democrats smell blood in the water and they are closing in for a feeding frenzy while they can. Go get-em boys & girls. It's probably a
forlorne hope, but mayby, just mayby something good will come of all this partisan rancor. This is the kind of passion I would like to see directed,
interalia, at revitalizing science & technology education and our downtrodden dollar.

Geesh, the Republicans need to be more mature about todays happenings instead of whining over it,

! Today day was so boring that I was
falling asleep on the couch but boy I sat straight-up when MSNBC started reporting that the Democrats hi-jacked the senate ,

,
best news I've heard in 3 1/2 years and it's about damn time !!!! The Democrats are finally sick of Bush&Co/Republicans BS lies and decided to
take the "bull by the horns" for answers,.... and I say" GOOD FOR THEM" !!! Heads are/will row over this Bush Administration deceptions to
Congress and the people of the US, hopefully they will start to Impeach that SOB and his thugs finally !!!!

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall with G W Bush in the room when the Democrats called for a closed sesson,

I agree Astronomer, it may be partisan politics at its finest. But in the abscence of any other alternative its heartening to see that its being used
to keep those in power responsible for their misdoings. Great to see America's government working properly again, however partisan it may be.

I wonder exactly what this is all about.... The one thing i keep noticing is how easy and how fast people keep forgetting that the pre-war
information on Iraq did not start with this administration, and that pretty much everyone in the world did agree that Saddam had WMD up to the
beginning of the war.

The only difference was that half of the world wanted to keep the sanctions and make millions while Iraqis died (Of course noone seems to mind that
now..), after 10 years of sanctions which we saw was not really working amidst the lies of Saddam's regime, while the other half was asking for
something to be finally done.

Now everyone want scapegoats and everyone want to hang someone, anyone for the sins of the world, or at least half of it, and of course the present
administration is the perfect scapegoat for bloodthirsty vampires.

It is just politics Muaddib, the democrats may actually pin something on Bush, but I really doubt it. Right now Bush & Co. are vulnerable because of
the withdrawal of Harriet Miers and the indictment of Libby and the Dems will damn well take advantage of that fact (as would the Republicans if the
roles were reversed).

As for the intel predating the Bush administration, you are absolutely right, but I think most countries were pretty much in the same shape relative
to new intel as the U.S. was and nobody paid much attention to it because it just wasn't very important to them. As for sanctions, no they weren't
working and futhermore, they were about to be lifted and the U.S. knew it didn't have the horsepower to keep them in place.

What the neo-cons in the current administration (and I don't really count Bush himself as being one) need right now is some dramatic evidence of the
success of their Iraqi policy. Even though I don't personally see such evidence as forthcoming for several more months, you can bet speeches and
press statements will start to fly trying to show such success and hence the wisdom of their policy. If nothing else, the show should be
entertaining.

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